{"id":1500,"date":"2012-01-24T12:31:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T04:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2020-12-11T11:22:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T03:22:31","slug":"hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2012\/01\/hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Why LOTR Sucks: What About The Hobbit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_34790\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KuEelIxmvaA?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<p>I&#8217;m a minute twenty-two in, and I&#8217;m already disgruntled. I remember how much I was looking forward to <strong>The Fellowship of the Ring<\/strong> when it came out. I even flew all the way from Beijing to Hong Kong to watch it on opening weekend. But I also remember being pissed off as soon as I heard the movies were being made. Why didn&#8217;t Jackson start with <strong>The Hobbit<\/strong>? <strong>The Hobbit<\/strong> is and always will be my favorite of the books. It just seemed to be the best starting point. Then we wouldn&#8217;t need this voice over introduction to the ring at the start of the movie. We&#8217;d already know, because we started at the beginning. Oh well. Maybe I&#8217;m being unfair. I&#8217;m not trying to criticize the decision to make the movie. I just want to look at what makes these movies bad movies, in and of themselves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minutes Watched:<\/strong> 1.22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a minute twenty-two in, and I&#8217;m already disgruntled. I remember how much I was looking forward to The Fellowship of the Ring when it came out. I even flew all the way from Beijing to Hong Kong to watch it on opening weekend. But I also remember being pissed off as soon as I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2847,642,120,1712,1232],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film_video","tag-beijing","tag-hong-kong","tag-lord-of-the-rings","tag-peter-jackson","tag-the-hobbit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3531,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions\/3531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}